Help I hold ants!? My kitchen is like filled beside ants do you know iny good...
My kitchen is like filled beside ants do you know iny good way to find rid of them!I cant put iny thang on the ground becuse i have a dog and a cat!!pleas help!!
Lay out cucumber peelings all over the floor and somewhere the infestation is. Ants hate cucumbers. They will go away and this is undisruptive and it really works! Ant traps. Put them in windowsills and on counters.
Had the same problem Took a couple of weeks to gain rid of them. I have 5 cats and 4 dogs----- they didn't bother them.
i think the product is call terro. it's a liquid you put on a small piece of cardboard, (out of pets reach). the ants come and feed, thieve it back to their home and kill them too, works great. you can also put down a border of pepper to hang on to them out of an area, burns their little feet. Since you enjoy pets in the house, i suggest making your own home made remedy from regular household product...
Answers: Terro is the product ... works great ... the ants will swarm to the solution and take it back to their nest ... near in several days you will notice a smaller amount and fewer ants as the nest is killed stale. When you first put it down you will see lots of ants and get scared but it in fact is a good thing. I hold used and recommended it for years You can place it so your pets can't get to it. Just put it right where you see them. I know the first instinct is to eradicate what you see but it is what you don't see that will cause you problems.
mosquito repellent:
We live in Ashcroft BC and are not usually bothered by mosquitoes except contained by the late spring. I have found that squeezing a piece of lemon or ginger peel and rubbing it on my skin works when nothing else is handy.
Catnip is a pure repellent to cockroaches. The active ingredient is nepetalactone, which is non-toxic to humans and pets. Small sachets of catnip can be departed in areas of cockroach activity. Catnip can also be simmered within a small amount of water to make a "catnip tea" which can be used as a spray to apply around baseboards and at the back counters.
Ant repellents
The first line of defense is to remove the attractants: keep counters free of crumbs and sticky spots. Cover the sugar and put the honey jar within a plastic baggie. Cut off water sources such as drips or dishes moved out soaking overnight. If the ant invaders persist, try these simple measures:
Keep a small spray bottle handy, and spray the ants with a bit of soapy river.
Leave a few tea bags of mint tea near areas where on earth the ants seem most active. Dry, crushed mint leaves or cloves also work as ant deterrents. Trace the ant column put money on to their point of entry.
Set any of the following items at the entry area in a small chain, which ants will not cross: cayenne pepper, citrus oil (can be soaked into a piece of string), lemon juice, cinnamon or coffee grounds.
Ants on the deck? Slip a few cut up cloves of garlic between the cracks.
Repellent plants
Catnip, peppermint, sage, and spearmint. plant mint around the house, or capture potted plants and place them where needed. ANTS HATE MINT!!
Ants will not walk through a stripe of talcum powder or chalk dust. Sprinke talc or chalk
Dust in paths the ants are entering contained by.
ANT KILLER 2:
1 or 2 cups of grits
I am from South Georgia, and in the South we have "fire ants." You could stir out and buy expensive ant killers but they are very insalubrious to children and pets. Instead this method works great. All you need is something you may have surrounded by your kitchen: Grits. just take (1 or 2 Cups) of GRITS, and sprinkle them around the ants mound surrounded by the yard. When ants see food, they immediately report to everyone in the colony and then start working to nurture the colony. An ant's body is made almost entirely of water. Grits are food that soak up water. When an ant eat these grits, his body gets all the river soaked up out of his little body and dies. This is a much better alternative to getting rid of ants in your yard than wasting money on expensive loads of ant killer or bills from your local pest control.
sprinkle nutrasweet where the ants are and they will whip it back to the queen. it will kill the entire colony at full tilt. wonder what it does to us